Profile: Dan Hatcher

Prior to joining the faculty in 2004, Professor Hatcher was in a statewide position with the Maryland Legal Aid Bureau, serving as the assistant director of advocacy for public benefits and economic stability. He previously worked as a staff attorney for Legal Aid in the Baltimore Child Advocacy Unit representing abused and neglected children, and in the Metropolitan Maryland office representing clients in public benefits, housing, consumer and family law issues. He was also a senior staff attorney with the Children's Defense Fund in Washington, DC where he worked on policy development and legislative advocacy in areas impacting child and family poverty.

Professor Hatcher has testified before Congress, the Maryland General Assembly and in other governmental proceedings regarding several issues affecting children and low-income individuals and families.

Classes: Civil Advocacy Clinic I & II, Health Care Law, and Law and Poverty

Recent Scholarship:

• Child Support Harming Children: Subordinating the Best Interests of Children to the Fiscal Interests of the State, 42 WAKE FOREST L. REV. _____ (2007) (forthcoming).
• Foster Children Paying for Foster Care, 27 Cardozo L. Rev. 1797 (2006).

-Taken from Dan's Univ. of Baltimore faculty profile.  E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu